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American Mathematical Society publishes paper by Jamie Walton, PhD with the Department of Mathematics.

Ocean discovered on Enceladus may be best place to look for alien life

Evidence from Cassini spacecraft suggests a large body of liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus

The Department's very own Prof Nikolai Brilliantov in 2008 worked out how water vapour jets might blast out of Enceladus if it harboured an underground ocean. Confirmation of the ocean made Enceladus the most likely place so far to find extraterrestrial life.